LatinNews Daily - 04 April 2024

On 3 April Peru’s government led by President Dina Boluarte comfortably won a confidence vote in congress that was triggered by the appointment of Gustavo Adrianzén as her new prime minister.... Read More

*The health reform bill put forward by Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has been sunk by the senate’s seventh commission, which voted to archive the legislation with nine votes in favour and five against.... Read More

On 3 April the regional electoral court of Brazil’s Paraná state (TRE-PR) continued its impeachment trial of Senator Sergio Moro, with one of the court’s seven judges voting yesterday in favour of ending the mandate of the former lead judge in the Lava Jato corruption investigation.... Read More

*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest figures for the country’s industrial production, showing a monthly drop of 0.3% in February.... Read More

On 3 April the US-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report stating that over half a million migrants crossed the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama last year, generating around US$68m in revenue for Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organisation (DTO), the Clan del Golfo.... Read More

*The deputy director of economic studies for Honduras’ central bank (BCH), Juan Adolfo Matamoros, has said that the bank, in its 2024-2025 monetary programme, is forecasting annual GDP growth of 3.5%-4.5% in both 2024 and 2025.... Read More

On 3 April Juan Pablo Sánchez Gálvez, the son of opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, resigned from her campaign team after a video surfaced in which he appears to be drunk and insulting security staff in a bar in the wealthy Mexico City suburb of Polanco.... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show that gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) in Mexico increased by 13.8% in January 2024 in annual terms and 0.1% in monthly terms.... Read More

On 3 April, a day of demonstrations by public sector workers protesting mass layoffs in Argentina ended in the resignation of the deputy labour secretary, Mariana Hortal Sueldo.... Read More

*Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released new figures which show monthly inflation in March was 0.02%, bringing the annual rate to 3.80%.... Read More